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Rex Nutting, in his commentary , devises a new labor-market measure he calls "person-years of unemployment," which he says is "the time that's wasted due to the lack of jobs, above and beyond the usual levels of unemployment.
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At 34 to 36 weeks' gestation, the rate was 0.65 and at normal gestation 37 to 42 weeks, the rate was 0.46 per 1,000 person-years, according to the study.
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Taiwan Business Council commissioned a study by the Perryman Group that found the Taiwanese order would create more than 87,000 person-years of U.S. employment.
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The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Singhal wrote in his blog, We've invested thousands of person-years into developing our search algorithms because we want our users to get the right answer every time they search, and that's not easy.
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The incidence of death for young adults was 0.94 per 1,000 person-years for babies born between 22 and 27 weeks' gestation.
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The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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For babies born between 28 and 33 weeks' gestation, the rate was 0.86 per 1,000 person-years.
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The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.”
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Singhal wrote in his blog, We've invested thousands of person-years into developing our search algorithms because we want our users to get the right answer every time they search, and that's not easy.
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